Deschutes Cinder Cone Red Ale

Brewed by Deschutes Brewery
Style: Amber Ale
Bend, Oregon USA

This bottle took the long way to Illinois from Oregon, by way of Maui. I purchased this at the Wine Corner in Maui during my honeymoon, never got around to drinking it, so I brought it back to Illinois with me. Red-orange in color, slightly murky. Small, soft head is khaki colored and mostly diminishing. Caramel and grapefruity hops in the aroma. The crisp hoppiness and mellow caramel malts meld together for one delicious aroma. Rather high hoppiness nearly overshadows the toffee malt profile. Lingering bitter aftertaste.

Bottle... Poured deep, hazy amber color with a moderate head. Aroma is crisp, floral with herbal hops. Palate has big carbonation. Roasted flavors of almonds and caramel malt flavors. Some hops and barley grain flavors too. Finishes with with bitter hops. Has more hops than most ambers which makes it enjoyable.

Nice orange color with a retained off white head and some lacing. Aroma is typical amber, caramelly malty, but wait what is this? An amber ale with hops in the aroma?. The flavor delivers a nice hop zing that really vaults this amber to the top of the charts. Nice interplay between the malts and the hops with a slight tilt towards the hops. Works for me!!!

Bottle Pours a dark amber, with a nice frothey head and lacing. I taste grapefruitwith a nice tang finish. this is a very easy drinking beer. great summer beer very good

Beautiful not-quite-clear copper with a good white head; defintely more red than amber. Taste and mouth feel made me think of Brazil nuts ... a little malty sweetness, but with a nutty dryness like eating nuts. Some bitterness from the hops, but not the west coast piney citrus type. Enjoyable.

Beer pours a clear, medium amber-brown color with a small, off-white, mostly and quickly diminishing head. The aroma is pretty nice: malty with moderately strong notes of caramel, cookie and slightly husky-smelling toasted grain; hoppy with light notes of grapefruit, dried apricot and flowers, trace note of resin/pine; yeasty with a light-to-moderate note of damp basement; light miscellaneous note of brown sugar. The flavor is lightly sweet, moderately bitter and lightly acidic with an average-length, light-to-moderately bitter finish. The body is light, the texture is watery and the carbonation is lively.

Golden with a splash of red.Has a nice floral hopiness on the nose actually very nice.Sweet but balanced well with the malts and hops.Slight bitterness from the hops.Has good body to it.Another fine beer from Deschutes.

From the bottle. Pours a handsome brown with red tints, modest head.

The aroma is full, nutty, warm bread, plenty of hops, hints of apple and pear; the taste follows, full (but deeply drinkable), slightly nutty, nicely bittered, toasted malty, hints of sourness, toffee.

I’m impressed. Most of Deschutes’ regular line does little for me (in contrast to their Bond Street series, which tends to impress), and I’m not an amber ale fan in general, but wow did they get this one right.